Tom Vaughan-Lawlor on Rose Dugdale and the West Cork connection to a famous heist
He broke through as Nidge, but Vaughan-Lawlor is toting guns for a different group in the fascinating tale of late British aristocrat, writes Esther McCarthy
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Jack Meade and Lewis Brophy in Baltimore.
She was the privileged English heiress and debutante who staged the ultimate rebellion against her upbringing - by carrying out a notorious art heist in 1970s Ireland as part of her involvement with the Provisional IRA. Rose Dugdale came from a wealthy background but became radicalised as a student, resisting family pressure to marry and becoming deeply involved in political activism.
Now a true-crime drama on Dugdale comes to the big screen, coincidentally just days after she died in a Dublin nursing home at the age of 83.
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